Ian Erickson, a staff writer for the Clearfield Progress covered last week's Pennsylvania Game Commission meeting on chronic wasting disease in DuBois. The meeting focuses on the state's latest chronic wasting disease management area, which covers about 350 square miles in Clearfield and Jefferson counties. The commission put the new disease management area, DMA 3, into effect after CWD was discovered in deer at a deer farm in Reynoldsville.

Rising populations of feral hogs, or wild boars, in Louisiana are impacting deer numbers there, according to a report by Todd Masson at NOLA.com and The Times-Picayune. The state continues to loosen its hog-hunting restrictions, but that seems to be doing little to slow the spread of the noxious quadrupeds, he writes.

Louisiana hunters killed 183,600 feral hogs in 2013-14, up 14 percent from 2012-13, according to the state's annual deer-harvest report. In contrast, Louisiana hunters in 2013-14 shot 166,200 deer. "Hogs continue to be a primary concern," the report states. "Research shows that deer and hogs do not mix and that deer can be displaced by hogs. Deer-detection rates can be ... 49 percent less where hogs occur. Hog populations affect deer numbers through direct competition for food resources and fawn predation. There is little doubt that feral hogs are impacting deer densities in Louisiana at this time."

A baffling array of logistics face the USA Shooting team as they work to get work to get 81 athletes from 37 states and 16 staff members to the Sept. 8-20 ISSF World Championship in Granada, Spain. Among the number they're dealing with: 75 flats of shotgun ammunition shipped directly to Spain, average 95 hours each part-time employee worked on coordinating the event, average $300 per athlete in entry fees, average seven days on the ground per athlete, 55 hotel rooms booked, $1,400 average plane ticket from U.S. to Spain, $250 average bag fees for a rifle athlete, $3,300 average spent per athlete for the event.

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